Daniel Bach

Regionalism in Africa

Genealogies, Institutions and Trans-State Networks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book surveys the socio-economic, intellectual and security related dimensions of African regionalisms since the turn of the 20th century. It argues that the continent deserves to be considered as a crucible for conceptualizing and contextualizing the ongoing influence of colonial policies, the emergence of specific integration and security cultures, the spread of cross-border regionalisation processes at the expense of region-building, the interplay between territory, space and trans-state networks, and the intrinsic ambivalence of global frontier narratives. This is emphasized through the identification of distinctive 'threads' of regionalism which, by focusing on genealogies, trajectories and ideals, transcend the binary divide between old and new regionalisms. In doing so, the book opens new perspectives not only on Africa in international relations, but also Africa's own international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781138839885
• ISBN-10: 1138839884
• Artikelnr.: 42740434

Autorenporträt

Daniel Bach is CNRS Director of Research at the Emile Durkheim Centre for Comparative Policy and Sociology, Sciences Po Bordeaux.

Inhaltsangabe

1 A world of regionalisms 2 Amalgamation and hysteresis 3 The politics of
economic cooperation 4 The frontier as a resource 5 Trans-state networks
and mobile spaces 6 Cognitive maps and holistic agendas 7 Defragementation
and connectivity 8 Africa in international relations: the frontier as a
concept and metaphor